210117 What I learned in my studies this morning

Today's Tao:

Returning is the motion of the Tao. 

Yielding is the way of the Tao. 

The ten thousand things arise from being. 

Being arises from not being.

 Moment of Zen:

Your true nature is something never lost to you even in moments of delusion, nor is it gained at the moment of Enlightenment. It is the Nature of the Bhūtatathatā. In it is neither delusion nor right understanding. It fills the Void everywhere and is intrinsically of the substance of the One Mind. How, then, can your mind-created objects exist outside the Void? The Void is fundamentally without spacial dimensions, passions, activities, delusions or right understanding. You must clearly understand that in it there are no things, no men and no Buddhas; for this Void contains not the smallest hairsbreadth of anything that can be viewed spatially; it depends on nothing and is attached to nothing. It is all-pervading, spotless beauty; it is the self-existent and uncreated Absolute. Then how can it even be a matter for discussion that the REAL Buddha has no mouth and preaches no Dharma, or that REAL hearing requires no ears, for who could hear it? Ah, it is a jewel beyond all price!

The Zen Teachings of Huang Po, The Wan Ling Record (Dialogues, Sermons, and Anecdotes), #26 p. 93

From The Daily Stoic: 

 

Begin. Start the work. Do what you need to do. The rest will follow. 

From Eric Hoffer, Part III, Unifying Agents:

Hatred 

There is a deep reassurance for the frustrated in witnessing the downfall of the fortunate and the disgrace of the righteous. They see in a general downfall an approach to the brotherhood of all. Chaos, like the grave, is a haven of equality. Their burning conviction that there must be a new life and a new order is fueled by the realization that the old will have to be razed to the ground before the new can be built. Their clamor for a millennium is shot through with a hatred for all that exists, and a craving for the end of the world.

(The True Believer, XIV-74)